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/ page 1041 of 1205 /I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
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I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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A gloss is a total system of perception and language.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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